ANCIENT CODICES OF CENTRAL MEXICO AND OAXACA - Native American Writing Systems, Part 5

Edgar explains the content of Post-Classic picture manuscripts from the Central Mexican highlands and the Mixtec of Oaxaca, with a special look into the famous Borgia and Yuta-Tnoho (Vienna) codices. He also comments how these works may have been read for ceremonial events!

0:00 Introduction: The Mesoamerican Codex Tradition
2:28 Codex Borgia and the Central Mexican Group
5:13 Edgar's Own Uses for the Codex Borgia
6:06 The Mixtec Codices

Boone, E.H. 2000 Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs. Austin: University of Texas.
King, M.B. 1994 Hearing the Echoes of Verbal Art in Mixtec Writing. In Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica & the Andes. E.H. Boone and W.D. Mignolo, eds., 102-136. Durham: Duke University.
Pohl, J.M.D. 1994 Mexican Codices, Maps, and Lienzos as Social Contracts. In Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica & the Andes. E.H. Boone and W.D. Mignolo, eds., 137-160. Durham: Duke University.

Certain images of the Codex Colombinus accessed from World Digital Library: https://www.wdl.org/en/item/3245/view...
Images from the Codex Mexicanus / Vindobonensis (Yuta Tnoho) :
https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/v...
John Pohl's Mesoamerica: Ancient Books: Mixtec Group Codices
http://www.famsi.org/research/pohl/jp...
Painting of Diego de Landa from the State Palace of Yucatan, Merida. Photo by Wolfgang Sauber:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
Nuttall plate 75: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Nuttall plate 52: https://archive.org/details/gri_33125...